White hair and blue shirt
White hair and blue shirt, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B á if à Q à ngsh à n, which means old age but not fame. From Hou Ji Lu.
Idiom explanation
Qingshan: the dress of the nobility.
The origin of Idioms
The seventh volume of Hou Ji Lu by Zhao lingwan of Song Dynasty The poem says: "white hair and blue shirt get official in the evening, qionglin suddenly feels the wine bowel is wide, no one asks in the evening of pingkang, so the palace flowers wake up and watch."
Idiom usage
Combined; used as adverbial and object; with derogatory meaning. He worked hard, but because of his bad luck, he got nothing.
White hair and blue shirt
exhaust all resources to build up one 's military power - wán bīng dú wǔ
attract the attention of the elegant young idlers - zhāo fēng yǐn dié
excellent in both performing skills and moral integrity - dé yì shuāng xīn
if the blind leads the blind , both shall fall into the ditch - máng rén xiā mǎ